Fraud Friday: Welcome to Boo Boo City w/ Brittani Warrick

Summary

Scam Goddess – Fraud Friday: Welcome to Boo Boo City w/ Brittani Warrick

Original Air Date: October 10, 2025
Host: Laci Mosley
Guest: Brittani Warrick (Creative Director, Digital Strategist, Social Media Manager for Dionne Warwick’s legendary Twitter, Digital Marketer at Westbrook Media)

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Episode Overview

This rollicking "Fraud Friday" episode revives a listener favorite from behind the paywall. Comedian and "Scam Goddess" Laci Mosley is joined by Brittani Warrick, digital marketing ace and social media whiz, for a hilarious, scam-slinging session. Together, they dissect everything from everyday financial grifts to one of history’s wildest frauds: the tale of Gregor MacGregor and the fictitious country of "Poyais" (a.k.a. Boo Boo City). The two trade stories about scams big and small, legendary hustle, and the everyday absurdity of living in a world full of con artists—all with biting humor, rich cultural commentary, and classic Scam Goddess energy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Life Itself Is a Scam (07:00–10:30)

• Brittani offers her personal take on the prevalence of scams in daily life, declaring:

  "I feel like life is a scam. Credit scores, that's a scam." (07:00, Brittani)

• Credit bureaus come under fire as profit-driven institutions that perpetuate inequality—the hosts note the arbitrariness of the system and how it disadvantages the poor.
• Laci and Brittani riff on the origins of financial reporting, joke about “just vibes” becoming a new credit metric, and the absurdity of paperwork and bureaucratic hoops.

2. The Perils of Being a Hairstylist to Scammers (18:00–33:40)

• Listener story from "Paul Revere" kicks off a segment on hair industry scams.
• Brittani and Laci break down Paul’s tales of clients trying to scam their way into free services: from paying with multiple PayPals to offering suspect jewelry in lieu of payment.
• The line between scammer and scammed blurs as the hosts question Paul’s sky-high prices and willingness to entertain obvious fraud:

  "Paul, you might be the one running game. Three to four [thousand] for a hairstyle? What are you doing over there?" (26:53, Laci)

• Ample jokes about "criminal hairstylists" and riffing on expensive LA hair culture.

3. Historic Hoodwinks: Gregor MacGregor’s Fake Country (35:17–55:40)

• Main segment: the bizarre true story of Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish conman who invented the entire country of Poyais in the 1800s and sold land, titles, even money to would-be settlers.
• Laci and Brittani provide history, hilarious visuals (MacGregor gets roasted for his portrait), and cultural context around European colonial grifters.
  • MacGregor’s “paradise” in reality was swampy, deadly mosquito coastland:

    “…the country of Poyais didn't actually exist. …he just knighted himself.” (36:09, 42:24, Laci)

  • The elaborate trick included fake guidebooks, currency, and seven ships of settlers (who mostly did not survive).
• The duo draws parallels to crypto hucksters, modern cults, and real estate scams.
• Memorable moment:

  “He told everyone he’s the Prince of Boo Boo City. …He got this land, he’s the prince of it.” (47:10, Laci)

• Ultimately, MacGregor dies peacefully, never punished for his epic fraud—a fact that prompts incredulous laughter and exasperation.

4. Scammer of the Week: Antique Store Markups (57:18–62:23)

• TikToker Angel Munoz busts an antique shop reselling $8.99 Goodwill swans for $220.
• The hosts debate the value of “vintage” goods, the ethics of retail markup, and the haunting nature of old collectibles.

  “Are you trying to have a haunted house? …I feel like everything’s haunted.” (60:24, Brittani)

• They conclude that value is subjective—if you can sell it and people believe the story, it’s worth whatever they’ll pay.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the absurdity of financial institutions:

  "Those funds aren’t coming… Credit karma: ‘You’re on a roll.’ And then Experian’s like, ‘No, the fuck you not.’" (07:23, Brittani)

• On scammy hair clients:

  "If I have to Venmo you and you're like, 'Yeah, I got a new Venmo.' How many—you shouldn't have new Venmos." (20:32, guest)

• Audience shade:

  "Don’t send me your complaints about this podcast. It is free, okay? I’m a black woman giving you free things, and you got the gall…" (13:44, Brittani)

• Summary of the Gregor MacGregor scam:

  "He played off people's weariness of where they lived...and managed to raise a decent amount of capital... Seven ships’ worth of settlers to a place that just killed them." (50:08–51:18, Laci)

• Acts of self-aware chaos, skewering both scam artists and their marks:

  "If you want this $3,000 hairstyle, go pawn your grandma’s jewels and come back." (32:00, Brittani)

• On haunted antiques:

  "That would be very ghetto to me if I died and I was a ghost and then I just haunted spoons." (60:37, Brittani)

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Episode Structure & Timestamps

| Segment | Start Time | Key Highlights | |-----------------------------------|-------------|---------------| | Introductions & Guest Banter | 02:00 | Brittani’s background, TikTok fast-talkers, phone numbers in jail | | What’s Hot in Fraud (Letter time) | 12:11 | Paul Revere’s hairstylist scam | | Historic Hoodwinks: Poyais | 35:17 | Gregor MacGregor’s “Boo Boo City” | | Scammer of the Week (Antiques) | 57:18 | Fake “antiques,” resale mark-ups | | Show Wrap-up & Socials | 62:23 | Where to find Brittani, Laci’s socials |

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Style & Tone

• Highly conversational, irreverent, and deeply comedic, interspersed with quick-witted sociopolitical observations.
• Frequent riffing and asides, but always with pointed moral or cultural insight.
• Focus on centering Black audience experience and calling out both structural and petty fraud.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a classic Scam Goddess blend—equal parts hilarious, educational, and acerbic. Come for the true-con stories, stay for the hilarious chemistry between Laci and Brittani, and leave with a new sense of skepticism (and maybe ideas for a side hustle as a “criminals-only hairstylist”). As always: stay schemin’.

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Find Brittani Warrick

• Twitter: @BrittaniWarrick
  “Buckle up—it’s a fun ride.”

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For listener stories, submit to [e-mail]—just make sure your scam is retired!
Stay schemin’, congregation!

Transcript

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

I tell you if it gets a.

[Lacey Mosley]

Little oily and I put in some Batiste, there's no white residue. My hair looks full and fluffy again, and I can scam my way into not having to do my ha hair that day. With Batiste, you can instantly refresh your.

[Brittany Warwick]

Hair and it absorbs all that oil and that grease.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay. So your hair feels more clean and it has added volume and texture. It's great on your hair and easy on your wallet. Buy Batiste Dry Shampoo online or in store at your nearest retailer. What's Poppin, Congregation? It's your girl, Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. Welcome to an episode of Fraud Fridays where we release older episodes from the Scam Goddess vault. That's right, Fraud Fridays is where we bring back your favorite episodes, the Paywall.

[Brittany Warwick]

Enjoy this episode from behind the Paywall.

[Lacey Mosley]

And as always, stay scheming.

[Brittany Warwick]

Scams cops, Robbery and Fraud Scam. Cause Robbery and Fraud Scam Goddess.

[Lacey Mosley]

What's Poppin, Congregation? It's your girl Lacey Mosley, AKA Scam Goddess. And we're back for another installment of Scam God. No, you don't have your.

[Brittany Warwick]

I couldn't even keep the speed up. I was gonna say no, you don't have your thing turned up to 1.5.

[Lacey Mosley]

I'm just talking this fast, but yeah, I don't know.

[Brittany Warwick]

I have a lot of energy today. We were recording a lot of these.

[Lacey Mosley]

Today, and by a lot, I mean two. That's a lot for me. Guys, this is a podcast all about Fraud Robberies con. We love to praise those who practice.

[Brittany Warwick]

It or condemn them. Cause sometimes they're bad people. I am very excited for this guest today. She herself says that she scammed her way onto the podcast, which I think is a lie. She is hilarious and very entertaining on every platform that I follow her on. She's a creative director and digital strategist. And if you don't know about her, she's the genius behind the legendary Dionne Warwick social media profile and brand. Recently, Forbes published an article about her. Come on, Forbes. And currently she's a digital marketer at Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith's company, the Westbrook Media Congregation. Please welcome Brittany Warwick to the show.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Hi, Brittany. Thank you. Hi. That was like, really, really professionally done. Like. Like one of those, like, Lunesta ads where you just like, just go straight through it.

[Brittany Warwick]

Oh, no, not the Lunesta. And then I'm like, in addition to.

[Lacey Mosley]

Sleeping, you might drive your car, kill.

[Brittany Warwick]

People to racism on the Internet. Kill yourself a loved one. You may not be able to, you know, like, booked. Booked. I would love to get that gig. I mean, right?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I saw someone on TikTok. I'm always on TikTok, by the way. I don't know if you follow me on Twitter. Lol. Just kidding you do. We follow each other. But there's this girl that, like, actively does it and she doesn't speed her voice up. She just speaks that fast. I'm like, how on earth are you doing that?

[Brittany Warwick]

What? Is she doing this professionally? Like, are the pharmacy girls calling her?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, the pharmacy girls are calling her.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, wow.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And the lawyer girls.

[Brittany Warwick]

The lawyer girl. Now what? Now why do lawyers call?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You know those Seleno and Barnes. Rip. Rip.

[Brittany Warwick]

But. Oh, yeah. And then they broke up. Cause which one's still alive? Is it Seleno or Barnes?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I don't know. But I feel bad for bringing them up because, like. Rip.

[Brittany Warwick]

I know they had a. Yeah, it was. I think I talked about that. Cause there was some tea over there about that.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, yeah, there was. I don't know what the tea was, but it was hot. It was some tea, man.

[Brittany Warwick]

But I will say, like, one of the things. This is so random. One of the things I think about sometimes, like, if I went to jail and I had to do, like, a first phone call, right? And like, I could call my mother. I know my mother's number, but she doesn't live in, like, so, like, that wouldn't be, like, a good number to call. So I'm like, who would I Call to bail me out. And I really don't know my friend's phone numbers like that. I'm so trifling. Like, everything is pre saved in my phone, so I'm like, I think I would be in there, like, 100 888-8888.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

They would help you, though. They'll probably help you, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

I would have to call them and be like, hey, Seleno and them. Yeah, y' all don't know me.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Seleno and them, bye, bye, goodbye.

[Brittany Warwick]

Y' all don't know me. Then I'm gonna sound like Alicia Keys in that interlude.

[Lacey Mosley]

Like, I look different outside my work clothes.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my gosh. Can we talk about how that whole entire song is just, like, so creepy? No shade. But, like, also, like, why was he drinking hot chocolate with fish and what was it something else?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, what was his order? Because it was weird.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It was, like, fish and, like, some green. I think it was greens. Collard greens. Fish. Fried fish. Can't forget the fried.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Hot chocolate with cream. Like, are you okay, sir?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. I feel like I don't want to date you. I feel like you be farting a lot also.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, why do you eat like that?

[Brittany Warwick]

What's going on?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, what's going. Are you okay? Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. You're absolutely right about that. It does feel like.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And every Wednesday, like, are you. You have to go to jail? Like, what are you doing? Is. Are you from jail?

[Brittany Warwick]

Are you giving jail? Serial killer.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's giving. It's giving penitentiary behavior for sure. I don't. I don't know.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, it's. I mean, listen, if you've been incarcerated, you come out. Look, that is no shade, okay?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No shade.

[Brittany Warwick]

Prison is a scam. And if that scam got you, then, you know, hate to hear it, but we do. I do love prison TikTok, where they be cooking food and stuff, and I'm like, wow.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Prison TikTok.

[Brittany Warwick]

They make Laffy Taffy and, like, all types of stuff. And I'm glad that they have TikTok. I saw some losers on there talking.

[Lacey Mosley]

About, how'd they get these phones?

[Brittany Warwick]

What da da. I'm like, they're already in jail, you losers. Like, let them have some fun. They're still human beings. Weirdos.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

They're little Addison Rae stolen dances. Like, if that's what they want to.

[Brittany Warwick]

Do that Addison stole from the black people, let them do those.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Exactly.

[Brittany Warwick]

I have to ask Brittany before we get started. Britney, what is your relationship to scams? Have you ever been scammed?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Do you like them?

[Brittany Warwick]

Do you hate them. Like, what's your. Where you at?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You know, I feel like life is a scam.

[Brittany Warwick]

Okay, yeah.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

This thing. And I don't know if that takes us to an existential crisis mode, but, like, credit scores, that's a scam. You know, weren't those, like, invented in, like, the 80s, right? Like, I have a point attached to my name. I have a Social Security number that we pay into, but, like, donde esta them funds? Like, where's that at?

[Brittany Warwick]

Those funds aren't coming. That reminds me of that one tweet that I don't know who originated it, because, you know, when a tweet goes viral, everyone steals it. But that one tweet, that was like, credit karma. You're on a roll. And then Experian's like, no, the fuck you not.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You know what's really funny is I have. So I pay for the Experian red carpet white glove experience, if you will. Like, I pay for the.

[Lacey Mosley]

What does that entail?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right, Exactly. It's probably a scam, now that I'm talking about it. But anyway, you pay to get, like, the full features on the app so you can, like, really see what's going on. And you can pay for, like, to see about if you're on the dark web, which is scary.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, now, what are these full features? So are you on the dark web?

[Brittany Warwick]

What else will they tell you?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Is your Social Security number compromised? Who's using it? Which email addresses are compromised? You get all three of your scores. I want to reiterate that those scores are a scam, but you get them, and you get to refresh them once a month or something like that. Whereas credit karma is like, you're doing great, girlfriend. No problem. Don't even check the app. You're fine. And then the Experian app is just.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, no, see, I think it's a little messed up that in order to know if someone is using my Social Security number, I got to run Experian some duckets. Like, I just feel like that's something that is I should be aware of. If that's a crime, that's a crime. I'm pretty sure that's like, if a crime happened to you and the police was like, okay, but we know who broke into your car. We do, but, you know. You know, they defunded us, so we just.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

$12.99.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, we're gonna need 1299. And then we will definitely tell you who robbed you, who broke into your house.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

The IRS is like, we know how Much you owe, and you owe it, and this is the date that we want you to pay it. And you're like, okay, cool, cool. Like, how much is it?

[Brittany Warwick]

Guess.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You gotta guess it. And if you don't guess it correctly, then we're gonna send you to federal prison. And there's no in between.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, Wesley Snipes, okay, Lauryn Hill, you're going to jail. But going back to the credit thing, cuz I think that's also interesting is like. And I will do more research on this, because I want to actually talk about this, but it's funny to me that somebody was like, yeah, we'll just go become the credit bureau. Because whenever we think about government organizations or anything, I think that we remove the humanity from laws, from lawmakers, from the Declaration of Independence, all this bullshit right from the Constitution. We removed the fact that this is just a bunch of people in the room, usually all white dudes, who was like, let's make some institutions up, y'.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

All. For sure. You know what I mean? For sure.

[Brittany Warwick]

Can I add to the credit bureau? I would like to make another. Like, we got three scores. I want a fourth one. That's just vibes. Like, if your vibes are bad, then you can't rent places.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I get that. Then like, oh, you have bad vibes. I'm not gonna let you rent my home. That makes to me also, like, can we get, like, some people of color in the bureau so that we be like, oh, this is like, this black man just wants a car. Like, that's fine. Get a car. I don't know. I just feel like it's a scam. It's all scam.

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, it is. And it's a scam to keep people poor because, like, your interest rates are going to be much higher if you're already broke, which makes no sense. It's like, don't they not have the money?

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah, but we have to worry about.

[Brittany Warwick]

Them not paying at all. And it's like, okay, girl. So, you know, I can spend my life doing that. Just vibes assessment. People, come sit down. It only takes like 5 to 10 seconds. And I'll be like, yeah, give them a home. Don't give them no home for them. No home for them.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No home for them. But then this is fine. Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

Or actually, they can have a home, but not an apartment. They should not live near people. Yeah, bad vibe.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

A farmhouse. Yeah, like, you could just. Yeah, I feel you. We're on the same page, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

I sign where you live. I'm like, they Live in the woods. Okay. He's like, but I work at. I work at Lockheed Martin. I'm like, well, you gonna have to commute.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You gotta commute.

[Brittany Warwick]

Cause you need to work in the.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Woods in your car that I assessed on your vibes that you could have.

[Brittany Warwick]

See, it's giving Ford F150. That's what you can have.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's giving Hyundai behavior. But you can have one, and that's fine, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

My first car was a Hyundai. Tragic. I got that one in a wreck so fast.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my God.

[Brittany Warwick]

This. Everyone on this podcast says I'm a terrible driver. It's just facts.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, yikes, man.

[Lacey Mosley]

I know.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's cool, though. You know, I'll be out here on vibes. I really let Jesus take the wheel. Like, he's fully in control.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He's operating the motor vehicle opposite for la. Like I. Everyone. Or maybe you contribute to the LA vibes of, like, the driving.

[Brittany Warwick]

Cause I do. I'm like, jesus, take the wheel. Take the brakes and the gear shift. Oh, God. And I'mma just be in the car, you know. Oh, you're just there. I'm just there. I'm a body in the car.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You just showed up.

[Brittany Warwick]

But I will say it makes me very forgiving. Like, when people do dumb shit on the road, like, I do get annoyed, but I'm not gonna honk at you. I'm not gonna yell. Like, I think that's such a waste of energy. I was going to get a facial yesterday, and I was using GPS to get where I was going. And sometimes my GPS be playing. It'd be like, eh, 200ft. And I'm like, how much is 200ft? And how much is. Is 0.3 of a mile? Because they seem to be the same. Like, I'll be like, oh, take a right at 0.3 of a mile. And it's like right now, right now, I'm like, wait a minute, guys. We're gonna move into our first segment here. Wow. It's gonna be a lot of tangents. Can you tell? And that's fine. We're moved on for a segment here. What's hot in fraud? As always, snitch on your friends and [e-mail]. just make sure the scam is retired. Cause we don't want to.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

What?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yes. Fuck up your bag. And I'm gonna preface this before we start this letter today, guys. I love y' all congregation, but when it comes to testimony. Brevity, girls. Brevity, brevity. Because these emails are getting really, really long. Y' all giving me your whole life story. I'm trying to edit them down. And I would love to share the things that you share with me, but if they're too long, I have to move on. Also, that email inbox is not. It's not a complaints box. Okay? Don't send me. Don't send me your complaints about this podcast. It is free, okay? I'm a black woman giving you free things, and you got the gall. The unmitigated garage send me emails talking.

[Lacey Mosley]

About, well, you know, I'm a white.

[Brittany Warwick]

Woman and I'm not racist. Don't you email a single person, a black person, that you know, with no shenanigans and tomfoolery and malarkey like that, okay? I told y'. All, if y' all want to talk about race, talk about it with other.

[Lacey Mosley]

White people together when we're not there, period.

[Brittany Warwick]

That way, no one's looking at us. Like, could you please explain racism to me? That's not. And if you're not racist, it don't apply. Let it fly. Like, don't take it personally, okay? Good Lord, if the shoe don't fit.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right, just move on.

[Brittany Warwick]

Then you must acquit. No blame, okay? Love you, period. Clogging up the inbox scams.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

A little unemployed person in your house.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

All.

[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

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[Lacey Mosley]

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[Brittany Warwick]

So I need a fake name for this person. We don't care about gender. Britney. Just make up any name you see fit.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, gosh. Oh, my God. I don't know. How about Paul Revere?

[Brittany Warwick]

Paul Revere. The most famous gossip. Nobody was out here spilling tea like Paul. When Paul heard the British recovery, he said, oh, I got to let the girls know.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

The girls?

[Brittany Warwick]

No, let me get on my horse. Okay. Nobody has ever spread gossip faster than Paul Revere. He said what?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He said, excuse me.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yo, go tell slave slave 5 to bring me my long johns.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He's like, but don't tell anyone. Okay, I won't tell anyone. Let me just get my horse real quick though, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

No, I'm just gonna take a. You know, I like a little night ride sometimes.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

You know, clear my head.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Just a breeze.

[Brittany Warwick]

And I imagine if he's on a horse, like, did he get off the horse or was he just yelling? Like, hey, he was just.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I think he might have Just been yelling, which makes it better a little bit.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right, right. Honestly, if I had to do wars, that's the job that I would want, you know, because you keep going, right? You get clout. Everybody knows your name, but you don't ever have to stop and actually do the battles. It's like, no, you got a horse.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, your hair's flowing. Like, it all works out.

[Brittany Warwick]

So Paul Revere says, I left a comment on Instagram about clients who have. Oh, okay, okay. So you left a comment on the scam guys pod Instagram. Yes. And then I was like, please email. Alrighty. So thank you for the context. Paul Revere. Paul Revere says, I love my job. And I have all the tea. Clients tell hairstylists everything. I know things that would make Jesus blush.

[Lacey Mosley]

I know.

[Brittany Warwick]

That's right. I do be telling my hairstylist everything.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Me too. Me too. Tomorrow.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's something about when they touch your head that you just let all your secrets go. That's where they're hiding in your hair.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

She literally knows everything. Like, I need her to sign an NDA now that I'm thinking about it. Go ahead. I'm sorry.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right, yeah. No, you might have to. You might have to get all scandal and be 613 on your hairstylist. Hell, we all need to. That's who should really be doing the extortion out here. Let's get a little. Hey, Melissa. What you doing here? I'm not due for another weave for two weeks. Yeah, that's not why I'm here. That's not why I'm here.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Exactly. We need to put them under an NDA anyways.

[Brittany Warwick]

Keep watching. We do high surveillance for the hairstylist. So. Anyway, throughout the years, I've had several people try some slick shit to get free hair. Free hair. Okay. I do have to give my scammer slash criminal ex boyfriend some credit for putting me on game. Which is one of the reasons none of these clients have ever been able to pull a fast one on me. Okay, so I like that your ex boyfriend did something right. He. Obviously, he's gone.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And there's a reason for that. But that's good, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. So some honorable mentions. A client whose husband is definitely like a computer hacker. Like, I think the type that steals credit card numbers. And then she would always pay in full upfront from different PayPal accounts. She always would make new accounts. Yeah, I feel like you should just really have one PayPal account. Like, I feel like. No, for sure.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No, for sure.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, if you have several, then that's.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, if I'm like, right, jail.

[Brittany Warwick]

But yeah, yeah, if I have to venmo you. And you're like, yeah, I got a new Venmo. How many? You shouldn't have new Venmos.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No, I straight up just won't. And that's where we stand. If you could just keep having a new one. I really can't do it.

[Brittany Warwick]

I think any new thing when it comes to your finances, like, maybe you switch banks once or twice, but like, if you just got a new bank, New bank, who dis the authorities will be called.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I'm like, why are you doing this?

[Brittany Warwick]

Why are you moving around so much? It's not like shoes, you know, you shouldn't be changing your bank like you change your shoes, your PayPal, you know.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right.

[Brittany Warwick]

So she's. So basically she's paying with different paypals all the time and various sketchy. Okay. Another woman texted me for three days straight telling me how much she loved her hair after I did a huge color correction and new extensions. Then on the fourth day, it all changed. She told me she was off her meds before I did her hair. She said it was all wrong and wanted her money back and that her uncle is a lawyer and that I didn't have the license to do extensions. I told her I'm a licensed cosmetologist and I will no longer be speaking to her since she threatened legal action, especially when I did nothing wrong. Long story short was she. She tried to dispute the charges with her credit card company. When she couldn't scare me into giving her the money back, I sent the screenshots and my reply to the credit card company and got a real nasty text when she found out that they denied her claim. I hope that. Okay, I'm not gonna blame this on mental illness. She says, I hope she's back during her meds, but I'm not gonna. Yeah, I don't agree with that, Paul Revere. Outside of that, like, I've never thought to try to return a hairstyle.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No, I didn't think that that was a returnable item. I didn't think that that's something you shout out to. Rena Will ask me, is this what you want? Is this matching what you're asking for? And I'll either say yes or no. And I feel like it's non refundable. Right? Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

I just don't think. How do you get a.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

How do you return it?

[Brittany Warwick]

It's one of those things. It's like if you go to the dentist and you get A cleaning. You're like, I don't want the give.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, I don't like this. Yeah, yeah, take it back.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. I guess you could be dissatisfied with your service and then perhaps ask for a discount or a refund.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

But even then, it's like.

[Lacey Mosley]

Do people do that?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

That's wild. That's crazy.

[Brittany Warwick]

I have never heard of that. I just didn't think you could do that. Now I have returned some extensions that were not the quality that they normally are or whatever. I've definitely done that. Human hair. Yeah. Once something's in your head, though, once it's sewn into your head and colored and stuff, I just feel like you have to go with that.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, go with God. Because at some point.

[Brittany Warwick]

Very funny. That she jumped to legal action immediately. She was like, my uncle's a lawyer, and he'll sue you. Like, how much was this hair, girl? Because I feel like it's not giving. Like, let's go to court.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, small claims. Like Judge Mathis. Like, he's not gonna look at that. He's not looking at that. Also, like, he said, off. She said that she was off of her medication, which I won't really touch on. Although as a fellow mental health girl for the girlies with the SADs is what I like to call them, That's. That's some information that's important, I think.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. But at the same time, I don't know if her mentioning that was her trying to season up her story, because she was the one who mentioned it to Paul Revere. So this just seems like she's trying to give a lot of factors as to why she loved the hair. And then now she's like, no, now that I'm in my right mind again, I hate the hair.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Absolutely.

[Brittany Warwick]

So obviously, the woman who tried to threaten legal action did not get a refund on her hair weave.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

But she tried.

[Brittany Warwick]

You know she tried. Of course, I have the IG OnlyFan model girls who get their hair paid for before they go on a trip to Dubai. But I don't consider these a scam. Get your money, girl.

[Lacey Mosley]

Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

I don't know why you wrote that in there. That's not a scam. That's a part of the list of requirements.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right, right, right, right, right, right.

[Brittany Warwick]

So since I've seen my fair share of people doing something strange for a piece of change for hair extensions. Okay. But this one client from November will probably forever claim the top spot. The particular client had come to me a few times over the past year. She already had extensions from Someone else, and they were messed up. I fixed them a few times for her. She never wanted to pay what I charge for a full appointment with new hair install. So a few times I would just charge her for the maintenance appointments. I eventually told her she would need to pay for new hair in an installment. Since I'm running a business and this is my income. She said she could not afford it. And. Okay, I mean, it just sounds like she couldn't. I don't know, girl. Some of these scams that you wrote in here aren't really sounding like scams. It just sounds like people who were.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Broke if you can't afford it. Also, why are you booking a service if you can't pay for it, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, you'd be surprised. People will do this. So she says this goes on for a while. About six months passes, and I get a frantic call from her that she absolutely has to have extensions done for the holidays and she has the money. Mind you, I'm booked out three months ahead. But there's always room for money. The appointment would be between 3,000 and $4,000.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Wait, for what?

[Brittany Warwick]

The holidays.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

For what?

[Brittany Warwick]

Three to four thousand dollars for one appointment?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Who's scamming who? Who's scamming? Are they. What is it? What? I can't even find them. What are you doing?

[Brittany Warwick]

Are you doing, like, hair plugs? Like, are they getting weave plugs?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like they golden hair plugs?

[Brittany Warwick]

Are you putting the hair extension in the scalp?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I think Paul. Is this still Paul?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, this is Paul talking.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Paul needs jail. Because that's. That's a. That's not. Why are you doing that? For who?

[Brittany Warwick]

Three to four thousand dollars? What are you getting done to your hair, Paul?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Come on, man.

[Brittany Warwick]

Now, I understand you, Paul. You was over here calling the girlies poor, but you. You charging. This is a down payment on the car.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

They're not poor. You're just insane.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, what do you mean?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Maybe they're. They want to pay the right amount. And he's like, no, no, no. That's like, I need $6,000.

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, look, there are some celebrity hairstylists who will charge for, like, you know, expensive highlights and stuff like that. But three to $4,000? Like, bro, that's a down payment on a Honda Civic.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, that's insane.

[Brittany Warwick]

Or one hairstyle.

[Lacey Mosley]

One.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

What is it now? I need to know what the style is. Does Paul elaborate on that?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. So, Paul, what is it? You know, this letter, it's all over the place, and it's very long. But what I'M surmising at this point is, Paul, you might be the one running game. Because three to four games might be the problem. Hairstylists, y' all reach out to me. I've been getting my hairs. Did you know, for a long time as an African American woman and you know, my mom went to cosmetology school. Cause for fun.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Mine too. Is that a black mom thing? Maybe.

[Brittany Warwick]

Because when I moved to Florida, my mom was like, I don't wanna work. I'm gonna go to cosmetology school. Okay, sis. It's not her profession at all. She just went and has done it. Okay, maybe it's a black mom thing. Damn. I might need to go to cosmetology school.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Same like, that's a rite of passage, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

I gotta make sure the kids look good. So I tell her the total is what Paul says, so I tell her the total must be paid up front in cash. And she has to come in the next day for a consultation. She says, I have a credit card and a debit card. Do you have money, though?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Wait, like I have these. These items, but like, I got a.

[Brittany Warwick]

Credit card and a debit card and.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

A PayPal and a Venmo.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, yeah, I'm pretty sure that a debit card, you know, you can take that to a automatic telling machine or telling machine, and then they. You can extract cash.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You can get that money out.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, that's how they work.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And even with a few grand out.

[Brittany Warwick]

A fee on a credit card, you can get cash out, which is wild.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You can also do Zell.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right. Which is as good as cash, so.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

As good as cash.

[Brittany Warwick]

But she says, so Paul Revere said, 3 to 4K. I'm gonna need it upfront in cash. Bricks, run it up. And homegirl said, I have a credit card and a debit card. And Paul said, no, no, no, lol. I told her cash only. I already knew those cards were not hers the day of the consultation. See, Paul, now that's how I know you are a part of this scam. Cause you're like, look, I know that she stole them credit cards.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I know what that looks like. I know the vibes. Not gonna report her because I do. And so I know what it looks like. Yeah, Paul, honestly, Paul, like this, you're the. I think you're the problem here. And also, like, I need to see what the hairstyles are because.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, Paul, I'm gonna need you to send in some photos because three to four thousand for a hairstyle. Paul, I need to know what you're doing over there? What are you doing? Clearly, miracles. Paul, are you a witch?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Are you a witch?

[Brittany Warwick]

The day of the consultation, she calls me about 10 minutes before the appointment and says her grandma, who is paying for her hair, apparently cannot give her a ride because she's having back spasms. This woman is in her late 40s. The woman who's getting her hair done. She asks me, how am I going to get there? Girl, I don't know. So I say, Uber or Lyft? She says her Uber is broken and can I send her an Uber now? Normally, the second I send any malarkey afoot, I just stopped responding to people. That's the advantage of owning your own business. But for some reason, on that day, I was open to some almost free entertainment. So I sent her an Uber to get to my salon. It only cost me $20. I reiterated that she must have the full amount in cash to pay for the appointment. And when she arrives for the consultation, she replies, I have more than you need.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Okay, that sounds like a threat, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

She arrives to the salon, clearly, hi, I do the consultation color to match her extension swatches. Okay. And she explains the hair, and I don't need to know that. So I look at her like, okay, where's the money? Honestly, I knew she was never gonna go through with it, but I just really wanted to see what her audacity inspired her to attempt. She asks if we can talk outside and tells me she has a gift for me. At this point, I think she's gonna try to pay me in drugs. Oh, no, it was even worse. We walk outside. She pulls out a bag of jewelry from her purse. She explains that her grandma was not able to pull the money out because of back spasms, so she went in her safe at her grandma's house and pulled out jewelry. The client is claiming the jewelry belongs to her, but just told me she took it from the safe at her grandma's house. She also has some printed out forms that were supposedly proof that the jewelry is real. Some of the jewelry may have been real, but some of it looked fake and like it was from a mall kiosk. Not Paul. Now why are you inspecting the jewels?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Because he's a thief. Paul is a thief. It takes one to know one, Sir. Madam.

[Brittany Warwick]

I tell her no, the full about has me paying cash. She becomes irate, asks if I can just trust her and use my own money to order the hair. She'll pay when she comes back from her appointment next week. Girl, bye. I tell her if she can come back by the end of the day. I'll keep her appointment. If not, I'll cancel it. Obviously I don't hear from her going about my week. Da da da da. Anyway. Okay. Lord. And then there's a text exchange. It's too long. We have to move on. But Paul Revere, I think you might be a scammer.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, I think you might. Have you been to jail? That's a question that I need to know the answer to. And also if you. The company you keep. We are all mirrors. Not to get philosophical, but we see ourselves in other people. So are you attracting other criminals? Because you clearly are one, is what I think.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, it's giving criminal. Because it's giving criminal. Like she literally just told you that she stole these jewels and you're like. And you know they're stolen. You know that you're getting. Getting stolen credit cards. You know that all this stuff is fraudulent. You're like, well, as long as it can't be trans back to me. Now, if you want this 3,000 to $4,000 hairstyle, it's shady. Like you need to go pawn your greatest jewels real quick and then come back.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And also like entertaining, like saying you're entertaining the whole experience. Like you. You had wanted to do a crime today and you should just say that.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, you could just say that if you wanted to do crime. Just say that. Girl, I don't know if you be getting scammed, Paul. I don't know if you getting scammed. I feel like you might be doing the scams when you're dealing with scammers. So that's your clientele. If your clientele is all criminals, then you know what you get. There's no honor among these.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And also, hey, coming from someone who's doing marketing, market it. Maybe make like, you know, make it a.

[Brittany Warwick]

You're a criminal's hairstylist. You know what I mean?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You could coin it. I mean, you might go to jail easier. But I don't know if you would.

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, you could really sell it as like you give the great court loops. Like come in here and get, you know, your hair. Get a silk press before your indictment.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Market that. That's some free advice, Paulie. Why don't you go ahead and market that you're a criminal? Because you are.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, Paul. Paul, you scammed me out of half my damn show with that long last letter where you turned out to be the scammer. Love you, Paul.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Love ya.

[Brittany Warwick]

Please keep listening, Paul. It's gonna jail. But I Feel like I'm afraid of you, Paul. So, like, these are all jokes. I love you, Paul. For legal reasons, can't wait to get my $4,000 hair done. Okay. It's gonna be everything.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's gonna be everything.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's gonna be everything I have. Robbery.

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[Brittany Warwick]

Hey, what does all in one mean?

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[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

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[Brittany Warwick]

Use as directed and fraud. It's time for my favorite segment of the show, his Historic Hoodwinks. Which we might have to blaze through this one today. Otherwise this is gonna be long. Good Lord, Paul, you really. You robbed me, Paul. Oh, no, it's not Paul. No more. I was just addressing Paul one more time. This whole show is about Paul now. Paul scammed me out of a whole episode. So Historic Hoodwinks. So this is where we regale Britney with a famous con caper. Group of criminals we don't know yet. Maybe we love them, maybe we hate them. We'll get our opinions all throughout. Let's see what we're dealing with today. So in Historic Hoodwinks, we're talking about a young Scottish man. So Sir Gregor MacGregor, to some, told the people of his hometown about a paradise he had found in South America. All anyone would have to do to.

[Lacey Mosley]

See, it was invest with him.

[Brittany Warwick]

However, little did they know, the country of Poyais didn't actually exist. And I'm having immediate flashbacks because if you listen to behind the Bastards, I have talked about Poyais, but on that show. So here we are.

[Lacey Mosley]

It's made its way over here.

[Brittany Warwick]

A little bit about Gregor MacGregor. Gregor was born on the 24th of December, 1786 to the clan MacGregor, a clan notable for strong family tradition of fighting. Okay, sir, that's what your family legacy was giving. Like, some people, like, oh, we bake the best bread. Oh, we throw hands.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

We throw hands. Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

It was just about we violent. My family does violence to people. That's what we do. That's what we do. No. Let me know if y' all need some violence done.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I know a person. I know a guy.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, it's the family business. Like, everybody gets in the family business when they grow up. You're the one kid who wants to, like, make our congr McGregor, right? It makes me think of that boxer. But you're the one. He's family.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, right. He throws hands.

[Brittany Warwick]

He does throw hands. This must be his family, which makes sense. Keep that tradition going. I would love to be, like, the one McGregor who, like, wants to make art or something, and they're like, now, you know, that's not what we do here with McGregor.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

We make kites. Like, I want to make a kite, dad.

[Brittany Warwick]

Get them fists up like you trying to paint. They like, nah, you gotta throw hands. We don't use the hands to make art. Okay.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Closed fist going hands and legs in this family.

[Brittany Warwick]

Okay.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Exactly.

[Brittany Warwick]

His father was Daniel McGregor, an East India Company sea captain, and his grandfather had served with the distinction in the Scottish Royal Army. So he served with distinction. Excuse me. Y' all know I know war stuff. So obviously the girls are like, they're getting. If you throw hands, what do you do? You go to wars, right? You know, that makes sense. You get distinction titles, and you go to wars, you know? Love that. So he was also distantly related to the infamous Scottish outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. At the age of 16, Gregor joined the British army just as the Napoleonic wars were about to begin. After only a year of serving in the 57 Foot Regiment, Gregor was promoted to lieutenant. So he's only been working in the army with the army girls for a year, and they were like, you are now army manager.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Senior manager, Army.

[Brittany Warwick]

You are soldier of the month. He really rose amongst the ranks. At the age of 19, he married Maria Bowater A well connected, wealthy woman whose father also happened to be a Royal Navy admiral, now comfortably wealthy. Gregory, or Gregory, excuse me, set up a home with Maria. Maria, family's rich, and my family can fight. And then they got married. So he set up a home with Maria and subsequently rejoined his regiment at Gibraltar. Gregory used his newfound wealth to buy rank of captain. So now he done bought himself a captain rank. So he. I guess at this time, like, you could get higher up in the military if you had money.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right? Right.

[Brittany Warwick]

So he bought himself a captain position, which obviously, like, he hasn't been doing wars that long. But he was like, okay, well, girl, I'm ready to lead the wars. And this is him.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my gosh. He looks like. Oh, the close up makes it worse. Yeah, it's like it's giving Pinocchio pre wood. And boy, it's giving. It's giving saw, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, it is kind of giving saw. His face is very soft. I'd imagine it would feel like a marshmallow.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I don't like it.

[Brittany Warwick]

His face is so soft.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I don't like it. And also, where's the hairline? I know it's not about his hairline, but, like, where is it? Yeah, maybe he needs to see Paul, because.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, his hairline is. There's a lot of rough terrain. He looks like he might need, like, a $4,000 hairstyle.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Ooh, the close up again is really getting me.

[Brittany Warwick]

Ooh, yeah. We gotta zoom back out, y'. All. This is get. Oh, thank you. Oh, Lord. He does have the kind of face that you want to punch. So I understand now why the family is fighting a lot. So Gregory used his newfound wealth to buy the rank of captain. He's moving up roughly. He spent around 90 pounds, or nearly 110,000 US dollars today instead of taking the seven years for normal promotions. So he was like, I want a promotion. I think it's very weird that we're giving promotions in the army. Not based, merit based. Because I think that's just like, one of those jobs where I do really need you to know what you're doing for sure. I wouldn't want a nepotistic pilot. Like, I don't want.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No, absolutely.

[Brittany Warwick]

My dad was a pilot. Now fasten y' all seat belts.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Give it a go.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, let's do it.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No, no, thanks.

[Brittany Warwick]

We at 35,000ft or whatever. No, I'm gonna need you.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No, thank you.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right. Like, I'm gonna need you to know how to do that. Like, war. I don't wanna do wars with People who are inexperienced.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

If you can't do a war, then don't do it. I think that should be. That should be the log line, the tagline. Yeah. If you can't do it, don't do it.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right. I think you just need to have qualifications. Like, these are the jobs where you need to have qualifications, not just vibes. So he eventually discharged after a disagreement with a senior officer and returned from the army to settle in Edinburgh after a nine year military career. So nine years. So you got married to Maria, then you left for like many years.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And where is he getting the blush from? I know it's not about his look, but where's the blush coming from on his face because he put too much on. I know. It's not about that.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, it's too much.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Where does it come from?

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, I guess back in the day, you know, there's some cherries, some strawberries. I don't know.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He needs to tell you.

[Brittany Warwick]

Aggressive pinching.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Fruits. A lot of pinching off. Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

So when he returned, Gregor attempted to pass himself off as an important man from an important family and subsequently began calling himself Sir Gregor Martin McGregor. He was like, how can I make this name fancier? More McGregors.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, more of it. Just like half an inch more and a sir.

[Brittany Warwick]

I'm like, I don't think any queen has ever laid her katana on your shoulders. But I guess you're knighted, huh? You just knighted yourself.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

They'll never guess.

[Brittany Warwick]

They don't know we're gonna check me.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Boo. Right?

[Brittany Warwick]

So. However, his grand plans of wealth and notoriety were gone after the death of his wife shortly after his return left a poor widower, Gregor came up with another plan to aid his ventures. Travel to. To South America and become the general of a division in the army of Venezuela and New Granada at the age of just 30, so. Oh, that's 30 in the 1700s. 30 is rough.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Rough.

[Brittany Warwick]

Ooh, we be living hard, huh? Oh, wow. I don't.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's. Where's the blush now? Right?

[Brittany Warwick]

Just like a banana in the sun. That's the kind of aging we doing.

[Lacey Mosley]

This is tragic.

[Brittany Warwick]

So in the ensuing months, he went on to marry another wealthy heiress, Donna Josefia Antonia Andrea Aristegueta Ylovera. That is a name now. Gregory McGregor. McGregor. I'm not even mad at you for adding a McGregor.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay.

[Brittany Warwick]

She's a baddie, though.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

She's cute.

[Brittany Warwick]

She was giving.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

She didn't want him.

[Brittany Warwick]

No, she did not. Oh, sweetie. Also, like, why are you giving your wealth to this man?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Danielle so is she 14? Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

You know, these are the bad times. I mean, we still live in the bad times, but she don't look that old for sure.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Look at him.

[Brittany Warwick]

Donya. Donya. They did you dirty. Whoever your daddy. Whoever did this, this is whack. Cause you was baddie. I really feel so sorry for you, Danya. So he continued to distinguish himself as a talented and courageous general of wars and independence fought by Spanish colonies in Latin America. His many feats of bravery included successfully capturing a small island off the coast of Florida with only 100 men. And I feel like whenever they tell these types of stories, like, the only people who were at the war were the people who were at the war. So they can say whatever they want happen.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Exactly.

[Brittany Warwick]

Like, who? Go check them cell phones. Like, you know what I mean? They could say they did anything.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

No one's going to Google it. No one's going to say that. Well, let me check it out. Nope. It is what it is.

[Brittany Warwick]

That's what I realized when I used. I'm from Texas, so we always had to read the stories about the Alamo and shit. And then I remember we went to the Alamo, and it was so small. It was so underwhelming. I'm like, so y' all was in here just fighting in, like a. Like, not even an ihop. Like, this is the size of, like.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

A Waffle House, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

A Waffle House. It was giving Waffle House. It feels like this was just a Saturday night fight at the Waffle House. And then for some reason, it became this folklore where we gotta remember it. Also, we lost. What are we remembering? The era.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I grew up in Georgia, and they talk about, you know, Stone Mountain, which is, like, Civil War stuff. I get it. Because, like, what are we talking about? What are we really discussing?

[Brittany Warwick]

Y' all inflated this, right? A lot and lost.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

So, like, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

Like. So hold the L. Like, I feel like that's what. Remember the Alamo means.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Hold the L. I like it. That's a good. That's a good tagline, too.

[Brittany Warwick]

In 1820, McGregor came across a swampy, inhospitable part of the Nicaraguan coast known as the Mosquito Coast. He convinced the leader of the indigenous to give him the land to create a colony and thus began to build his empire. So I'm sure he thought he really outsmarted some indigenous people and was like, I got him to give me the land. And they were like, oh, you want. You mean Boo Boo City? That's what we call it. Yeah, you can have that.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Whatever yeah, that's fine.

[Brittany Warwick]

Hey, y'. All. He want Boo Boo City.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He probably thought he had got something right.

[Brittany Warwick]

He thought he had really colonized.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Colonize something.

[Brittany Warwick]

He tried. He tried.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I'm thinking about his face. I know it's not about his looks, and I keep going back to it. I just can't.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. It's just his face is very. It's aggressive to look at.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It hits the eye wrong. Right.

[Brittany Warwick]

Very wrong. Truly.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Okay.

[Brittany Warwick]

Poor Danya. But at least he went to war a lot, Danya. So it's not like you had to see him a lot. He was out of the horse.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He was a war boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

He was out doing the wars.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Okay. She could have had a side.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yes. I hope she found her a little neighborhood, you know, like a roofer or somebody who came. Yeah, someone plucked the grass. Cause they didn't cut the grass back then. Did they pluck it? How'd they get it short?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I don't know.

[Brittany Warwick]

They rip it. You see how somebody coming over to rip the grass? And also those walls.

[Lacey Mosley]

Okay.

[Brittany Warwick]

So the beginning of Gregor's scheme. Having been gifted the land, Gregor returned home with a tale of how he was the Prince of Poies. So he's telling everybody, I'm the prince of Boo Boo City. He got this land. He's the prince of it.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Poop palace.

[Brittany Warwick]

And he's trying to get the girls to pull up. So Poies was an idyllic country, a little larger than Wales. Located at the Bay of Honduras, it had miraculously fertile fields, clear water, and even gold in the riverbanks. Now, this is what he's telling people. We know it's Boo Boo City. But he was like, it's huge.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's giving.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's so much gold that I was like, I can't even pick it all up.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I can't have all this gold. I'm just gonna leave it. I left a lot of it there. And, like, it was just way too much.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's crazy. The crop. The land is so fertile. Like, the land was buzzing, always wet.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I can't.

[Brittany Warwick]

The crops were cropping, like I'm telling ya. Ayanna, just come.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Crops for crops. This man needs therapy.

[Brittany Warwick]

He truly does. But instead, he has scams, and I love that for him. So he's telling them, you know, miraculous feels like you've never, ever even seen. Okay. All the good people of Scotland had to do was invest a modest sum with Gregor in exchange for the promise of paradise. Gregor started publishing interviews in national newspapers and talking about the perks of investing in Boo Boo city boy.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yes.

[Brittany Warwick]

So for those who had more questions, Gregor offered a guided book on poies written by Thomas Strangeways. Now, Thomas Strangeways is actually just McGregor, but he invented a pin alias. That sounds like a very real name. Thomas Strange Ways. So we're looking at a image and we'll post this on the Instagram of what the city of Poies looks like according to McGregor. So he. He got some good drawings.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He'll. Right. And also, like, are you. Are you gonna post his photo period.

[Brittany Warwick]

For them to see that?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

We are.

[Brittany Warwick]

Brittany's very distressed by the photo.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I'm gonna have nightmares.

[Brittany Warwick]

What he posted in this photo we were zooming in here is like, he says, there's palm trees that are giving palm. There's even a mountain in the back. There's several boats, there's lots of birds. You know, it looks very lush and paradise. Like, I think in the background, he's even erected some house. Yeah.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

There's a whole suburban neighborhood going on.

[Brittany Warwick]

In the city situation. So to add further legitimacy, he even printed his own money and offered people the opportunity to exchange their British sterling into poies dollars. Okay, come on. The first bitcoin he's committed.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's a commitment.

[Brittany Warwick]

He came up with a new coin. I love it.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

There it is.

[Brittany Warwick]

He got NFTs get involved.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He is, yeah. I mean, at this point, like, even if I knew he was lying, I'd be like, sure, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

He got money. He got money. There's thought in this.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He got photos, he got money.

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, and, you know, he's been in all the wars and he's been around the world. He's a war boy.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, he's a war boy. He has his imagination, he has penmanship. I'm trying out.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's giving. It's giving. I think I'm going to poies. I got got. He played off people's weariness of where they lived, their patriotism for Scotland because Scotland had no colonies. So he's like, I'm also giving the girls a col. Like, you know, we haven't done a lot of colonization. We just been over here fighting.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Hands.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, we're throwing hands and we've been throwing it back.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

And we need to get some colonization going on. Okay. So he's taking advantage of that. And they're. They're all adventure goers, apparently. Like, that was a big part of Scottish pride, was like, you know, them being hardy adventure goers. Additionally, a warm, lush paradise offered a very different life than that of the Gray dreary Scotland. As a result, Gregor raised £200,000, which is roughly like 270,000 USD. So, you know, they're just converting directly to the bond market. And the value ran up to, like 1.3 million pounds or 1.7 over his life, about 3.6 billion pounds. Wow. Today. So if we were to convert that in today's money, it's like he raised a decent amount of capital.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

People got got.

[Brittany Warwick]

But his biggest success was in convincing seven ships worth of eager settlers to make their way across the Atlantic. In September 1822 and January 1823, the first two ships, the Honduras packet and the Canersli Castle, left for poies, carrying some 250 passengers. So he was like, y' all get on this carnival cruise, right?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

To Boo Boo Boo with the palm trees and the subdivision that I made. It's a gated community. Come down, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

He over here talking about this place like it's a Frank Ocean song.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, yeah. This man, I don't know. This is the imagination on him, right?

[Brittany Warwick]

So only a third of the settlers survived, and they were eventually picked up by a passing ship and taken to Belize. So when the girls got there, they were dying.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I can't. He's a murderer, too.

[Brittany Warwick]

Oh, no.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my God.

[Brittany Warwick]

Well, he's an accidental murderer. I mean, I guess he had known he did wars, so maybe he did probably do some murders.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

But he did some murder, and he was like, I wanna do some more. And this is the elaborate scheme to do more murders.

[Brittany Warwick]

So around 50 people returned to London in 1823 with a story for the press spelling the end of Gregor's re. As the Prince of Poyaz, Gregor hastily disappeared to France. But he didn't learn his lesson. And Gregor repeated the scheme on the French. This time, he managed to raise almost £300,000 and even acquired a ship. But French authorities eventually learned news of the voyage, and the plans were immediately halted. Gregor was briefly detained, tried for fraud, and impossibly good. He was acquitted.

[Lacey Mosley]

Oh, my God.

[Brittany Warwick]

In French court in 1826. And one of his associates was found guilty instead. He'd have pinned it all on somebody else. He had somebody do the big.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

This man is a menace to society. Truly.

[Brittany Warwick]

And in the coming decade, he carried on setting up schemes in London, although not such a grand scale, until eventually, in 1838, he retired to Venezuela to a rapturous hero. Welcome.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Wow.

[Brittany Warwick]

Okay, so I do remember when I did this on behind the Bastards. And Rob has, like, way more details than this. This is such a Long story, actually. But this man was going from city to city getting the girl. Like, he was tricking the girls into all types of wars. He was marrying all the girls and using their money to go to parties and pretend that he was, like, a war hero.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my gosh. This reminds me of the Tender Swindler. No, no spoilers. But please.

[Brittany Warwick]

Okay, so Gregor McGregor passed away peacefully in Caracas at 18 in 1845. Not at 1845. He lived to be a thousand. No death.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

1845.

[Brittany Warwick]

So he was 58 years old when.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He passed away, which.

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, the age 45 times. Yeah, yeah. Why did you say that, Brittany? I love people in their 50s. My mom is in her 50s.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I don't know why I said ew. I think it's because he did all the crimes.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. No, he was a bad dude. He was a bad dude.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

He passed peacefully. Like, for what?

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, no, he didn't pass unpeacefully, which would have been fun. He died screaming. No, he died peacefully, which is not right. And then he was buried with military honors in Caracas. I do wanna say, because I have a little. Before we move on to the end of the show, I have a little bit more information about this scam than what's here, because I have talked about it. Find that behind the Bastards episode. It's really funny. You'll get a lot of details about this guy. But one thing I do wanna say about Boo Boo City, AKA Poiriers, is not only was, like, the land not fertile, but, like, the conditions that these people were living under there. Like, it was. They. There was no housing. There was no structures. They had to try to build their own houses. They were fighting with each other for resources. It was like. Like a horror film, like Stranded on an island. And then a third of the people died. It was really, really bad. People were getting sick. Like, there was. How can you that.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, how can you live with yourself? Like what? Like. Well, I guess he didn't live with himself too long. Much longer after that. But how could he?

[Brittany Warwick]

I mean, he did. He died peacefully at 59, so he can't remember. He did. He did. Popo's house. The city of Popo's house. He did that at 30.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my God, he did. He was 30.

[Brittany Warwick]

So he lived for 30 more years after Popo's out.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, my gosh. If hell is real, he is there.

[Brittany Warwick]

And if you don't know what popo's out is, isn't that a good. Kevin fed her life.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Kevin Kay fed. Yep.

[Brittany Warwick]

Popo's Out.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

First of all, why, sir?

[Brittany Warwick]

Why?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It wasn't. He was trying to make fetch happen and it didn't happen.

[Brittany Warwick]

It did not happen.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It did not happen. I can't.

[Brittany Warwick]

Oh, it was terrible. I can't even believe he fixed his.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Mouth to say that in his Janco jeans. Is that how you say it?

[Brittany Warwick]

The. I don't know. I don't know how to say Janco. I feel like Janko is right. Jnco. Oniche.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Like, yeah, he was really a sight to behold.

[Brittany Warwick]

A whole scam. Kevin was a whole walking robbery and has been since Shar Jackson. When he had the baby with Shar Jackson, then left her for Britney Spears.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And then, yes, popo's owl.

[Brittany Warwick]

Shout out to Moesha. Shout out to Shar Jackson and Popo Zao. But, yeah, Popo Zao was a big scam. And you know, McGregor. Another thing I'll say about McGregor before we move on is he knew how to dress like I told you. He would have on all of his medals from all the fake warriors that he said that he was a general in. And he would go to parties and talk cash shit and be at the salon. Everybody always loved his stories. Like, definitely listen to the behind the bastards episode on him because it's a fun one. But, guys, it's time for scammer of the week. This is where we highlight a charlatan who's worthy of our praise. Or maybe not. We'll see. This week we're talking about one antique store that's gone viral for exposing the whole antique industry. A tiktoker, of course, is TikTok.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right? It's always TikTok.

[Brittany Warwick]

The girls on TikTok, they love violence. They're like, every day messy TikTok.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

That's where I am right now.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yes, I am, too. I love it. Love messy TikTok. Also love, like, rich stay at home mom TikTok find it very fascinating. Oh, and also that lady who cleans her house with all the gadgets who gives me anxiety. Love her TikTok.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yes. I thought that was like one big ad. We could talk about that at a later date.

[Brittany Warwick]

And I wouldn't be shocked if it wasn't like, that's too much stuff to just have sitting around.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I don't have it.

[Brittany Warwick]

Also, it's not cute to have a bathroom. That's just. And how much and where do you buy it?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah. And where do you get that? Because it's not a good. If it is an ad, like, it's not a good one. Cause, like, I don't know where to purchase.

[Brittany Warwick]

Exactly. I do want to know where to purchase, but also, I would hate to go in my bathroom and then see all the cleanest supply doohickey McGisms all around.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's giving wall e like, I can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brittany Warwick]

It's too much. Also, every time she cleans things, I get tired. I wash those to go to sleep. I'm like, woo, girl. We cleaned it. We did it both of.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

And before you go. Before you go on tarot TikTok ultimate scam. I can't with them. I can't with tarot TikTok.

[Brittany Warwick]

They doing, like, readings.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, the tarot. Are you not on tarot TikTok?

[Lacey Mosley]

No, I'm not on tarot. Oh, my.

[Brittany Warwick]

Okay, I'm going to go.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Okay.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

They. They tell you that your person's coming back after they cheated on you.

[Brittany Warwick]

Wow. Okay. Maybe they are coming back.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

I hope not. Right? Like, leave me alone at this point.

[Brittany Warwick]

Listen, in life, monogamy isn't everything to everybody. Maybe, maybe.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

But also, just like, then don't be in a relationship. That's a whole other conversation, I think.

[Brittany Warwick]

Truly. So a tiktoker named Angel Munoz was antiquing one weekend when he found a brass swan set of three with a price tag of $220. Thinking the swans had an interesting story, to garner the larger price tag, he flipped one over, but on the bottom found a goodwill sticker still stuck stating $8.99.

[Lacey Mosley]

Wow.

[Brittany Warwick]

So they were gonna charge $220 for these gold swans?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Are those from Pier 1?

[Brittany Warwick]

They are giving old. Except for they're not. Because on the bottom there's that line that looks like they were made in a factory.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, it's giving. Like Pier 1. Manufactured to look old.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yes. Yeah, it's giving. Like we rubbed some tea on this or we burned it with a lighter.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah. And it was originally 12.99.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right. And then we put it on sale. Yes. So the overpriced or vastly underpriced swans call into question whether the antique store made a simple mistake or took advantage of the general public often being unable to discern what's junk or a priceless heirloom. Even goodwill is taking it to heart. Wow. I mean, look, antiquing old things. Y' all know how I feel about people collecting old things from old times. I'm. It makes me concerned. I'm like, why do you want these civil war spoons? What are you trying to remember? Slavery?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Are you trying to have a haunted house? Do you Want to. Like, I feel like everything's haunted. Like, that's like, if you know me really well, then you'll know that I'm always saying things are haunted. So I feel like if you go to an antique place, like, you just are asking for a haunted house.

[Brittany Warwick]

See, but that would be very ghetto to me if I died and I was a ghost and then I just haunted spoons. Like, I feel like that's, like, the worst station. Like, worst. What did I do in life? I want to haunt, like, a old boat museum. I don't want to haunt spoons.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Right.

[Brittany Warwick]

Every time you'll be on kitchen counter, I'm like, ooh, you having a yogurt? Like, boo. What's the worst job?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, I think that there's some. I mean, those particular swans do not look haunted. Are they swans or ducks?

[Brittany Warwick]

I think they were swans.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

They don't look like they have spirits in them, but they do look like they're from Pier 1 or Home Goods.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah, it's definitely giving Home goods. You know, it's. It's not quite giving CB2, but it is Home Goods.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Home Goods, Yes. Maybe urban home. Maybe.

[Brittany Warwick]

Could be Marshalls. Yeah, maybe Marshall's on a good. In a good neighborhood.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah, in the suburbs. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yeah. But, guys, I mean, when it comes to that kind of stuff, the value that you put on something is the value that it has. So if you want to believe that these swans are worth thousands and thousands of dollars, just believe that in your heart, because in your heart, either way, it don't matter.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Yeah. I think if you think it's expensive, then that's expensive to you, and that's fine. Right.

[Brittany Warwick]

And you can lie to everybody. You know, all you gotta do is peel off that $8.99 sticker and get to Lion Girl and tell everybody that it's.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

You got to keep up the lie.

[Brittany Warwick]

Right. Tell everybody it came from Harriet Tubman house.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Mm. They won't question, they won't Google. And if they do, they won't find it. Like, Exactly.

[Brittany Warwick]

They won't find it. They won't.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

If they go so far as to Google it, then they can go to hell. Right, Right. Like, why are they Googling that hater? Right? Exactly.

[Brittany Warwick]

But, guys, that brings us to the end of another episode. Shout out to Paul for really derailing this one. That's my fault. Come on, guys. We always ask on the show, Brittany, where would you like to be found?

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

Oh, Twitter. My Twitter account. It's just my first and last name, and then Just buckle up I guess.

[Brittany Warwick]

Yes, buckle up. Oh, it's a fun ride. It's a good time over there on Britney's Twitter. I love it there.

[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

It's a nonsense.

[Brittany Warwick]

I absolutely love it there. As always. Guys, cinch on your friends and [e-mail] just make sure your scams are tired cause we don't wanna fuck up your bag. And if you wanna see the photo of this very unsavory looking man, then Scam Goddess Pod on all platforms. Scamgodesspod Instagram will have the photos up every week like we always do. And if you wanna follow me and my shenanigans, T I V A L A C I D V Lacy on all platforms. Congregation Stay scheming. Scam Goddess. Scam Goddess stars and is hosted by me, Lacey Moseley, AKA Scam Goddess. It's produced by Judith Kargbo, engineered by Marina Paiz and researched by Kalen Bro Brand. Stay scheming.

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[Brittany Warwick]

Hey, what does all in one mean?

[Clorox Toilet Wand Advertiser]

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[Guest (Digital Strategist, possibly Brittany's co-host or friend)]

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[Brittany Warwick]

Use as directed.